Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. His hair is long and brown with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Ruler arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 3000 gp. Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp).

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his kukri with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His head has been shaved. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Through the years after Aelar was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Aelar's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Aelar and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 500 pp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (170 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Architect but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Vanuath was raised in a hard working conservative environment. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vanuath fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.